Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium (L.) (= Gnaphalium obtusifolium L.) is an important plant used in the practice of traditional medicine among many Native American groups in eastern North America. This essay documents use ...

In this article, I examine how quiltmaking contributed to the construction of home environments in the 1920s to 1940s. Drawing from oral history interviews with descendants of six black and two white quiltmakers, I argue ...

In a conversation format, seven anthropologists with extensive expertise in new digital technologies, intellectual property, and journal publishing discuss issues related to open access, the anthropology of information ...

Klassen, Teri(American Folklore Society and the University of Illinois Press, 2009)

African American quiltmaking began to gain recognition as an expressive form distinct from European American quiltmaking in the countercultural climate of the 1970s. Representations of it since then have served to update ...

Some joke performances are meant to elicit differential responses—laughter from some, and unlaughter from salient others—and so serve as powerful methods for heightening group boundaries. This article illustrates this ...